Dr. Oz Finally Called Out for ‘Quackery’ by Nation’s Top Doctors

Dr Oz is under fire from top doctors who want him booted from Columbia University’s faculty for endorsing sketchy diet supplements.

Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz on his hit television show, has been accused of being a “charlatan” and a “quack” by a group of top doctors from around the country, who want Oz booted from the medical faculty at New York City’s prestigious Columbia University.

But getting rid of him may be difficult. Oz is vice chairman and professor of surgery at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The doctors who signed the letter, which includes Dr Joel Tepper, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Dr Gilbert Ross of the American Council on Science and Health in New York City, were no less damning.

The letter said the Columbia cardiothoracic surgeon, had “misled and endangered” the public on his five-year-old show.

The letter read in part:

“He has manifested an egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain. Thus, Dr Oz is guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both.

IM sister site Celebrity Health & Fitness reported on a Congressional hearing last June where Oz was called on the carpet for hyping “miracle” drugs.

The university responded to the letter yesterday painting the issue as a matter of academic freedom.

The school “is committed to the principle of academic freedom and to upholding faculty members’ freedom of expression for statements they make in public discussion,” it said in a statement.

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